At the next Savills Auction, to be held on 27 March, the team will be auctioning 87 Hackford Road, SW9, where the artists renowned for his sunflower paintings lived from 1873 to 1874.
At the age of 20 Van Gogh arrived in London to start work at an art dealership in Southampton Street and from August of 1873 he lived at 87 Hackford Road. There is an official blue plaque on the front wall that commemorates his stay.
The house was owned by a Mrs Loyer who lived there with her daughter and it was Mrs Loyer’s daughter who Van Gogh reputedly first fell in love with.
There is also a sketch of Hackford Road which includes number 87, this was in the possession of Eugenie Loyer’s grand daughter, Mrs Kathleen Maynard, and is now in the Van Gogh museum, Amsterdam. The Hackford Road sketch is the earliest surviving drawing from Vincent’s English period.
87 Hackford Road, SW9 is an end of terrace three bed period property with rear garden and is in need of full modernisation and is on at a guide of £475,000.
The Savills Auction will be held at The Northumberland Hotel, 8 Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5BY.
